Day
10
The day began with the celebration of our 2nd
youngest team member, Nathan’s 14th birthday; helped along by some
great decorating by some very dedicated team members who had worked well into
the night, blowing up balloons, writing beautiful birthday cards and making a
large poster decorated in a Manchester United theme. Breakfast consisted of the
much-loved rolexes, fresh pineapple and Nat’s invention of the chapatti pancake
(it’s amazing what can be achieved with Maple Syrup)!
We then had devotions from Ryan before
heading out for the days work at the YSU site down by the lake, picking up
Brother Luke on the way. The projects for the day included digging a trench to
repair a wall, the building of a 2 story chicken coop with fantastic views of
the lake and some beautification work on the roadside out the front. Our
Ugandan “bosses”, Robert K, Emma and Ronnie, supervised all the work. We all
worked hard during the morning and then headed back to Suubi House for lunch.
During the afternoon we made good progress on our projects and knocked off work
at about 4.30. Those of us who still had energy then played the kids at the
Village of Hope in the daily soccer match (Mzungus 9, Cranes youth team 6)
although the Mzungus were missing their star striker (your author of today),
(who was too tired after digging trenches for most of the day). We then got
back together as a team and celebrated Nathan’s birthday with a dinner of slow
cooked beef, French beans, rice and matooke.
After dinner, Doctor Phil awarded the
inaugural “Legend of the Day” to Amy G for her herculean efforts in digging
trenches all day, despite the hazards of frogs, savage 8 week old guard dog
puppies and annoying teenagers. We then celebrated Nathan’s birthday and Amy’s
award with a delicious Chocolate cake prepared by the lovely Juliet. We then
settled into the usual evening routines of blog writing, “take 2”, reading and
the using of hand held devices.
Blog kindly written by John S.
Pics below..
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| Party time!! |
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| Todays 'Legend' The pic doesn't do her justice! |
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| Yep John worked hard!! |
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| Cement mixing. the boss is 'directing'! |
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| Look! we got dirty! |
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| View by the lake - the serenity! |
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| The community around YSU |
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| Birthday cake for the birthday boy! |
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| Team work makes the dream...oh wait no... the van work! |
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| Amy S and her work 'double'! |
1 comment:
Absolutely love reading your blog you've done soo much in a short space of time and the home of hope kitchen sounds great! Hope you are having the best experience everyone :) p.s. Keep up posting all the photos, the ones of the kids keep making me tear up! Rachael
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